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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Julian Borger

Rwandan ex-police chief arrested in South Africa over 1994 genocide

A woman carrying her child looks at the wall of victims' names at the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Rwanda.
A woman carrying her child looks at the wall of victims' names at the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Rwanda. Photograph: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images

One of the world’s most wanted genocide suspects, a Rwandan former police chief, Fulgence Kayishema, has been arrested in South Africa and charged with playing a leading role in the murder of more than 2,000 people in a church in April 1994.

Kayishema has spent more than two decades as a fugitive and was living under a false name at the time of his arrest on Wednesday afternoon in Paarl, 35 miles (60km) north-east of Cape Town. He was detained by the South African police and members of a tracking team from the Rwandan war crimes tribunal based in Arusha, Tanzania.

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